we know how evolution to be is and we have to confront it so what exactly is that enemy all according to the chairman of the house homeland security committee that enemy is american muslims so is congressman peter king the new joseph mccarthy. and just who voted congressman came into office while many of them were muslims so what do they have to say about the representation now. there's a great concern in our community and we need somebody to voice their concerns. and it turns out congressman king may not be alone in his opinions will take you to a region in the united kingdom or

a hotbed of hatred is brutal. and you were do you choose to promote democracy worldwide what is being impeached judge who was recently sued for sexual harassment doubtful so why does the u.s. government have a criminal making huge democratic decisions abroad. it's wednesday march ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out here watching our team. well he's the new york congressman who famously declared that there are too many mosques in america and tomorrow republican peter king will begin hearings and his investigation into the radicalization of muslims congressman king who's the chairman of the house homeland security committee that is doing it in the name of protecting the homeland all across the country protests against this have erupted there against targeting

a single religion i'm even calling it a modern day attempt of mccarthyism are these kill import reports. half a decade ago during america's second red scare this was the accusation to answer your head rather than on the promise today it's this one muslim leaders are not doing enough to cooperate with law enforcement there's actually been instances of the mobs instructing people in their mosques not to cooperate with law enforcement accusations of disloyalty subversion treason made not by some planted you're a wonder of radical islam the slight. neighborhood you live in and the mafia operates there. but by the chairman of the congressional homeland security committee republican pete king who is launching his highly publicized hearings on the radicalization of muslims in america we know how you got was and he is and we have to confront it and to me it's

a present to all muslims when we don't single out islamic terrorists it's almost we're afraid to insult muslims because. terrorists remember it but can't dismiss is the critics who say the hearings unfairly single out muslims ever say any of these criticisms seriously because they are just me jerk liberal left wing reaction and this is the politically correct establishment despite criticism from the right and the left at the mere announcement of hearings king says he won't back down begin to name those names we're going to have expert witnesses and we'll do what we have to do which worries critics like history professor alan tracker we've always had our scapegoats today it's muslims in the one nine hundred fifty s. it was communists they see the congressman from new york is following in the footsteps of the senator from wisconsin joseph mccarthy focusing on people's associations in this case religious rather than political but calling them.

in public and exposing them to some. mind of sanctions whether it's just nasty e-mails where there is dismissals a workplace sanctions a manner of doing so that despite muslim leaders cooperation with the f.b.i. they're continuously viewed as the enemy especially since the end of the cold war the worse thrives on war and it throws conflict where for. peace so we became. the new carmen's according to a department of homeland security study islamic extremists are seen as a threat in thirty one states while neo nazi and white supremacist cells groups left out of king's homeland security hearings are seen as a threat in all but four when we talk about terrorism in the united states what people who have been the terrorists you know some poor pathetic nut in

arizona timothy mcveigh of oklahoma city these are the people who are killing americans. most of the critics on the right and the left the efforts of mccarthyism are troubling last month he also introduced the see something say something designed to prevent citizens from lawsuits when they report suspicious activity but critics say it amounts to little more than informing on each other much as they did during the ism and the cold war killing ford r. t. washington d.c. over a limb of life we give hearing to have brought forth dozens of discussions on all sides and when the hearings begin tomorrow we will no doubt hear more but now i want to turn now to thema giuliani in houston texas he's a physician and journalist and also a muslim american and recently wrote a column about congressman king hearings for the guardian. hey there is pain when you are among those who have likened what is about to happen here in washington to mccarthyism why do you think that of the case. it is

a very disturbing time in america when we are thinking out a group of people based on their religion or their ethnicity or their race which is certainly what is happening here. but mr kenya called for hearings to investigate the radicalization of american homegrown terrorism in regard to muslim americans i would i would agree that there is a problem in terms of terrorism and violence in this country but i would just ask why are muslim americans being singled out certainly there are many other terrorists of different ethnicities races religions that have contributed to the escalating violence in that country and furthermore mr i find it here alarming because it is very empathetic and for the america that i believe and i'm an american for there's been born in this country and the america that i feel that strongly or and love would not single out a group of people based on their religion i'm sort of piggybacking on that i want

to point out something that you wrote you use a lot of call this what it is bigotry brace in the american flag nothing more than a fear mongering attempt drenched in political theocracy laced with reactionary hatred and deceptively packaged in an incredulous label of national security same as it ever was america's tragedy is no longer that fateful day in september of two thousand and one our catastrophe is what we have become sima what have we become. i find the. word is very disturbing to me my and my god my parents came to this country of immigrants in hopes is a better life which i hope i have ensured here we are becoming one a new country and nation can find it acceptable to put people on trial for their religion to put people on trial for what they believe that is completely and critical to anything that i believe in and furthermore i i would think of the if we

were having a conversation ten or fifteen years ago i think that everybody would call a spade a spade and call the bigotry why is the climate change so much now that something acceptable that this is something that we're even having to discuss can you imagine can you imagine if people wanted to investigate investigate organized crime and called only italian or wanted to investigate. actual abuse against children only called catholic i am in no way suggesting that that take place but i am saying is that certainly we have a problem within radical islam but we also have a problem with radical groups throughout the country and they make say the holocaust museum shooter virginia tech shooter jared lochner these were not look and very tragic events have been huge because there's a selection you know i know you said that your father flew the american flag every night i use of the only thing that your family is radical about is keeping up with the television show glee but talk about this i mean how do you stay loyal i think

a lot of people wonder about this how do you stay loyal to your muslim faith and also immerse yourself in american culture. i don't see it as a problem at all these are not two mutually exclusive labels i can be a muslim and i can be an american i don't understand why they have to be in two separate category certainly they're christian americans and their people their black american that's what america is about this is why i love this country so much is because if i were you know i got into the american dream i'll tell you i'm as cheesy as it gets and i get choked at the star-spangled banner q this is a country i believe in wholeheartedly where these options and these opportunities are available but it's not a challenge for me to be patriotic and i relish what about this notion of you know homeland security secretary janet napolitano has said plots to attack america increasingly involve american residents and citizens. and she has alluded to the

fact that many of them involve people loyal to al qaeda if not these hearings what's the answer seem i mean how do lawmakers deal with threats that are certainly there i mean you're not calling for these threats simply to be ignored no not at all well first of all i'd like to point out that a new study by the triangle center on terrorism and homeland security found that tips for most americans actually provided information that helped authorities were chairs lot in forty eight of one hundred twenty cases and the majority of those cases were actually at chinle to the united states and not internal certainly muslim americans are indeed contributing to the safety of this lady i don't see where that type of me is personally furthermore i don't understand why it has become my personal responsibility to lease this community i'm an american and i've been it enough that i am a law abiding productive position that that contributed to society why do i now

have this burden that i have to leave people i'm not a part of and in fact all done in. further hatred i know was that no longer go to their mosque because they're afraid they're going to be turned in by the f.b.i. for no good reason let me also say that to counter what you did say that f.b.i. director robert mueller u.s. attorney eric berger have they are publicly traded and support and the cooperation of the american muslim community in playing a very instrumental role in law enforce them we will unfortunately when it comes to the thirdly we even saw the recent example i believe it was the mafia in the new york area where an f.b.i. informant i think was in los angeles where an f.b.i. informant came into the mosque and some people that went there actually called the f.b.i. on him because he was trying to bring about talk that was less than favorable in that community certainly a lot to talk about here we will keep our eyes on these hearings thank you so much

for joining us physician and journalist the mental army turns out there was a time when congressman king was very friendly with the muslim community in new york but things are changing drastically as r.t. correspondent kareen important shows us the men and women who once fought to get him into office now feel disrespected and unfairly targeted but. on friday. a familiar sound of worship. center of the long island oh oh oh it's a place of prayer education and community service for many of long island seventy thousand muslims it's also a place where u.s. congressman peter king spent years building bridges with american voters. supporters who today remain shocked that king illegals their mosque a hotbed for extremism that should be put under surveillance to give them the readings also and we have been to his office many times what about if we needed

that. how b. ahmed is chairman of the long island center that sits just outside the boundaries of king's third congressional district amid fears the man he once fundraise for a currently be destroying his force fueling the flames of islamophobia in america and security of my community is my biggest concern and trying to create. more problems why i should be doing things during his early days as congressman king was often seen at the islamic center on long island giving lectures holding book signings even serving as the main guest of honor when the officially open official say since september eleventh two thousand and one the u.s. representative has not stepped one foot inside this building these lawmakers center unanimously condemned the event but can cut ties with the institution after two officials were quoted denying muslim involvement and linking israel to nine eleven

. instead peter king recently appointed chairman of the powerful house homeland security committee has announced congressional hearings on allegedly hidden radicalism among american muslims and mosques. a drastic turn that has brought here to king's constituents he generalize. and realize in a very broad way and in a way that. all for the american will for even outside of from a states that has very disturbing to us especially when the coalition of muslim population in the long island community is growing substantially looking for support. congressman king has said that most muslim leaders in this country aren't cooperating with authorities yet no member of this long island islamic center has

ever been accused of terrorism. muslim americans in this community are appalled that their very own u.s. representative is targeting them based on their religious beliefs their extremists in every every community every religion i mean you you know why just islam what it's you have to gain from it by the personal then there may be something to gain in the politics it isn't out of fear people are really angry. as to because the burden for sure who's going to really explain the experience to free in a country of tolerance a new york community left feeling isolated and marginalized by the man they once gradually behind. archie new york and while congressman king prepares for these hearings one big concern is the amount of tension that will come along with them

and it's not a concern to take lightly there's actually a town in the united kingdom where muslims and christians are already feeling that tension and are fighting fire with fire are to correspondent laura reports. mosques hit jobs and how shops a scene straight from the police dogs of the orient but this is luton north of london home to some twenty five thousand muslims of british and other origins one of them was time or abdel wahab al abdel better know now as the stockholm bomber abdul qadeer pax knew him and described the volatile character rejected by the community at large where he was he was challenged his ideologies is thinking it would challenge we challenged him and when we realized he wasn't we exposing to everybody every member of this community he got up and walked out and we never saw him again the next they heard our abdullah had blown himself our pigs region and that's just the latest claim to infamy falutin which is fast becoming known as

a hotbed of extremism the town's been linked to a variety of terrorist plots and elite british intelligence reports identified leeson as one of the main hubs of fanaticism in the country extremism breeds extremism and in steps the english defense league committed to protecting england from what they see as a wave of islam is a leader tommy robinson believes he's walking on the spear to tread we have called the chip market. we've got grave concerns in our community and we need somebody to voice and in charge politicians are not doing it they're not doing it again so the e.t.l. coolie to their home although others say their groups are in football hooliganism they recently held their biggest ever march through the town ahead of which robinson says the police told him his life was in danger your opinion for ice may be appropriate if you leave the area for the foreseeable future the town of lucent

has undeniable links to islamic extremism including most recently the stockade bomber he spent time here and that in turn leads directly to. the rise of groups like the e.t.l. who believe the england is under threat meanwhile the people of luton see their town in the headlines because of extremists from both sides of the fence the town's m.e.p. says the force majority of live in harmony and are distressed by their homes image what we can do is. an encounter me to stand quietly peacefully and show that the majority of this town and in this country of all faiths do not believe to the workshop this organization we do not want them here to stalk obama's family claims england for turning him from a normal boy into a fanatic some points to unemployment and social deprivation as the reasons for the

extremes found in luton but backs lays the blame squarely at the top of the government before nine eleven we never had these make these type of issues this is just going to level the governor's foreign policy as we start with going into iraq you know it you know illegal war killing women children souls of all going to afghanistan you know carpet bombing indiscriminately meanwhile was thousands of miles away make their presence felt in luton where every so often shopkeepers boarded up the town center and prepare for the hurricane of extremism to pass through. our team lisa. now we wanted to dig a lot further into what these hearings could mean for muslim americans and whether cities in the united states could become a hot bed partner for hatred and that's one you just saw in the u.k. more earlier i spoke to two people with two very different ideas about what they're about to happen here in d.c. seen martley is the president of the organization governments and the man on the ali mussa is the director of the masjid all islam ask here in washington here's

part of that conversation. the muslims are not being radical the muslims right now especially these were great muslims very afraid it's unbelievable and i'm corporation had to go right here in virginia the two biggest centers in this area cooperated regularly with the f.b.i. i cannot speak i used to be one of the most popular speakers on the planet for i could not speak fact i spoke of no nylon the while back i can't speak on any platform in any muslim platform because of my ideas and the way i know they're afraid that i would make the government may play i'm although they have been oppressed so i'm sorry anything the congressman said it reminds me of the little house where they called the house of un-american activities anything that they don't like was considered a threat to america and i'll tell you what research we ran across was as the best

groups of citizens in america were mormons and muslims this is what they say and think now let's talk about this i mean they're what america is bigger picture of what these here i think right here i think we just heard the bigger picture he's losing speaking gigs because he's insane when it comes to what happened on nine eleven and those muslims those monster saying we don't want any part of what he has to say those are being put before peter king's committee because they're not nuts the ones he's investigating are the ones that are engaged potentially in terrorist activity or shielding terrorist activity there been forty eight instances of domestic terror islamic related since nine eleven just that i've done in my found in my research and more than half of them involve multiple participants not just lone wolf single individuals there's a lot who want to sex there's a virginia there was a virginia doesn't i haven't i have

a list in my pocket but the point is even. to pick him. involved in columbine there's they can go to any attack there's jared loughner in arizona none of them are muslim timothy mcveigh wasn't muslim and how many have now gone back over twenty years to get the four are well off the top of my head then i don't you know i don't live above that that well i'll tell you what i was on the last night on the foreign network with someone who said there have been forty eight muslim care related activities since eleven and seventy so all of the radiology or whatever you want to say combined which means one in three more than one in three islamic related so peter king playing the numbers will lisa i'm robbing the base because that's where the money is he's investigating the number one leading cause of domestic terrorism or attempted domestic terrorism in the united states you play the numbers and this is what as if that this is what upsets me. and there are some of the muslim community that are doing this this is a huge opportunity for the muslim community. this is

a huge opportunity for them to come forward and say we are helping and a lot of them are availing themselves they're up there working with peter king peter king just didn't wake up one day and said let's do this he's been looking at this for years and he's going to investigate the revolutions of the muslim community that haven't been cooperating and have been shielding terror activity those are the ones and the only ones that he's investigating he's going after our religion in targeting always right harding or literally on their release want to delineate the violent practitioners of the religion from the rest of them are getting all of them always are targeting elvira getting how's he talking all the answers they are of his own volition all on the side of peter king to two side by side with peter king defend islam from these idiots who are doing things in the name of it he's a moderate. record for became chance for. thirty three. bit on his enemies and. the right to defend the thought that i am so this man if you're

talking about these new congressional hearings on muslims and radicalism i travel all over the country oh all the time and i know most of the muslims and i don't see any of what he's talking about is see the government is like this if it can get its way it is just fear the whole country into submission to follow and it's the law states government is harassing and threatening muslims all over the world he talked about us defending muslims i don't know where he sleeps at night but it must be far far away what we know is this. the muslims are good citizens they should be left alone there are muslims in general talking about major ninety's i am fantabulous ninety nine percent of muslims they don't even talk about any terrorists. now is the mali president of less government and

a mob director of masjid all islam are in washington d.c. . now thinking commission that answer from oh democracy security and human rights and a noble cause certainly needs a noble leader right well as it turns out its former co-chair congressman alcee hastings may not be so noble after all back in the late eighty's he was impeached from his position as a federal judge and now he's been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit so how could someone like this possibly be in charge of moral oversight and joining me now to talk more about this is chris carroll the director of investigations and research for judicial watch and chris i want to talk about congressman hastings history with that kind of spotty record i know from the seventy's and eighty's he was a federal judge he was impeached for taking a bribe to get out a lesser punishment he was impeached for perjury for bribery now he's been charged with sexual harassment this is

a man who was once as we said in charge of the whole thing commission also known as the u.s. commission on security and cooperation on europe talk to me now about this great irony all of these things it's certainly a very controversial character and you know there's only been six or seven judges in history of the country who were vintage by the house and convicted in the senate and removed from office and alcee hastings is one of the six or seven out of the last two hundred thirty years so a notorious personal record and certainly one that indicates some pretty grave judgmental questions about how we think and in what you want to do with some of the people of south florida decide to return him to federal service which is that's curious all by itself i think it was and he asked not ever to run for public office or to seek public office again and he's remarkably errors in character and i think that's him straight about the fact that impinged federal judge has to turn around and go back into federal office in which one remarkable is that the people of south florida have returned enjoy office over and over again so that's another curious

piece of the story but when it comes to his personal behavior with regard to winston. packer ms winston packer is the helsinki commission of forty who alcee hastings harassed tormented when after despite being told repeatedly no. despite other people on the staff being asked to please understand you didn't stop to have him you know since this behavior towards her he's unrelenting and unapologetic and and i got a really examine interrupt you real quick i know we have a statement from congressman hastings i just wanted to put up he says quote i have never sexually harassed anyone in fact i am insulted that these ludicrous allegations are being made against me i will win this lawsuit fraught with lie if you feel competent we look forward to discovery in taking his deposition in that regard and that of other employees at helsinki commission i think would be very illuminating when all the details come out about his particular behavior with regard to mr hacker the maybe other folks to decide that now's the time to step

forward i think will be very illuminating about pal he's comported himself and actually how he's conducted business within the commission you know this is a snapshot but there's probably a broader picture here and i'll be very interesting for the public to understand what kind of man his things is well i know it's interesting when you take a look at some of the complaints by most tiger i know that he constantly asks to stay at her apartment he would ask her a ridiculous question in the workplace or like really kind of underwear evolution you know going to his but i do want to focus kind of on his role on this commission are charged with making moral decisions i mean talk about this i mean how how is this leadership in the u.s. perceived by others when this is who we're having levy's commission the ironies and paradoxes here of manifolds here's a here's a commission it's been established you know for security human rights cooperation in europe really really fostering all the principles all the good old good stuff

that people would want to see and government and in policy in public life there here is this man who seems to be really the antithesis of. what do you tell me just what we can expect in the coming weeks and months in terms of this loss there sure will of course initially will be an exchange of legal briefs back and forth and short of a process but at some point we're going to discover you would be taking depositions of mr hastings and others the commission will find about staff members who are told will interview senator ben cardin who miss pastor went to complained about since he was the saddest equivalent of the strange things and i asked him what did you do the thing what do you stand by idly when you read a complicit or negligent in your duties did you stand by do nothing or did you willingly do you think the u.s. government might think twice next time on who they choose to lead that commissions are chris farrell director of investigations and research at judicial watch and that's going to do it for now though for more on the story of the com or go to our two you've got comes last usa or you tube dot com slash r.t. america and christine for the.